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Originally Posted by wannabee
In Sydney you can not smoke in a public building, shopping mall, hotel and certainly not anywhere where people are eating inside or out. A few years ago every club and hotel started to build outside smoking areas because it became illegal to smoke inside. Some regional councils have made it illegal to smoke in public parks anywhere near a child's playground and parents can not smoke in a motor vehicle with children on board.
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Pikers. Where I last worked in the U.S. you could not smoke in any public building, either owned or visited by the public, and not within 25 feet of a window or door. I asked if it matter if the window was one that didn't open. No, didn't matter.
I was at a restaurant with a friend and we strolled outside to have a cigarette and chat before dessert. In that state, the magic 25' rule applied to restaurants, too. A nice young man came out with a tape measure.
I don't smoke now but I find the anti-smoking crusaders to be silly and tasteless and I do expect smoking to be outlawed with characters in books.